Sentences with phrase «with brain trauma»

But research increasingly shows that when the «white matter» that ties the gray stuff together is damaged or deficient — as it can be in patients with brain trauma, autism and schizophrenia — goal - directed task performance can be very poor.

An auto accident left me with a brain trauma, overweight, insomnia, high blood pressure, poor night vision, and other health problems.

From physical therapy, speech therapy, or even counseling, an injured victim with brain trauma will be immediately exposed to several financial and physical challenges.

Because of this, motorcycle injuries tend to be much more physically devastating than automobile injures, with brain trauma, second or third degree burns and muscle damage being very real possibilities.

A cat with brain trauma may have difficulty regulating his body temperature, causing either too low a body temperature or fever.

Although about 20 % of stroke patients and up to 50 % of patients with brain trauma injuries suffer from these types of functional impairments, there is still no effective therapy.

The team of clinical neuropsychologists at Saarland University have used this training programme on eleven stroke patients, nine patients with brain trauma injury and four hypoxia patients.

That includes the thousands of people with brain trauma, spinal cord injury, stroke or ALS who are fully conscious but unable to express their thoughts.

Not exact matches

Not to mention studies have shown that champagne may help the brain cope with the trauma of stroke, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

I came down with CTE or severe brain trauma because of the concussions and at the time I didn't know anything about it.

Compare that to the normal busted up faces with conclusions and brain trauma.

It is, of course, much more meaningful to compare an individual's post - injury cognitive ability with their own unique brain function prior to the trauma.

According to the Washington Times, researchers at Boston University told Matson's family that he had the worst case of CTE — chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the neurodegenerative disease associated with repeated brain trauma — they had ever seen.

Despite recent media attention on concussions and other brain trauma, the majority of football injuries occur in the lower extremities, with injuries to the knees reported to be as high as 36.5 percent, followed by up to 18.8 percent for ankle injuries, up to 13.3 percent for shoulder injuries, 11.8 percent for head injuries and 7.2 percent for neck injuries.

This is basically as bad as it gets for the Detroit Lions, especially with all of the lawsuits going around and all of the players that have brain damage because of repeated head trauma.

Update: A new update on Thursday afternoon from the hospital confirmed he has suffered serious trauma with severe brain damage.

Arming sideline personnel (especially a certified athletic trainer) with new, cutting edge tools and technology, including impact sensors to track hits and alert sideline personnel to those which might result in concussion or brain trauma from an accumulation of sub-concussive blows, and a battery of quick and reliable sideline assessment tests to make «remove from play» decisions;

«The widespread media attention to these reports,» writes lead author Hal Wortzel «appears to have primed the public to accept highly reductionist formulations regarding the neuropathological bases of neuropsychiatric illness and complete human behaviors among persons with remote histories of [brain trauma].»

The brain, trying to deal with major emotional trauma, can alter its neural pathways, creating, essentially, a different person.»

With this understanding, foster parents can create healing environments that focus on the mind - body connection and the role of the brain in trauma.

There is the ever - growing list of retired football and hockey players who have been diagnosed post-mortem — often post-suicide — with the degenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), allegedly brought on by repetitive head trauma.

Publication of the Purdue study sent shock - waves reverberating through the football world, with the findings cited by concussion experts calling on youth sports organizations to take more aggressive action to minimize exposure to RHI, including sub-concussive blows, by changing the way contact and collision sports are played and practiced, and reducing the amount of brain trauma a child incurs by limiting the number of hits they sustain in a sports season, over the course of a year, and during a career.

The debate over how to respond to the growing research linking brain trauma to injuries sustained in sports has spread to Europe, with many of the same dynamics seen in recent years as the issue gained momentum in the United States.

In the above article the words: cellular, hormones, brain and nervous system appear by the second paragraph with absolutely no references to explain how these biological terms or processes relate to birth or birth trauma.

Earlier, the House gave final approval to a measure allowing veterans with other - than - honorable discharges attributable to post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury or military sexual trauma to access state benefits they're currently barred from.

Scientists have gained a better molecular understanding of the region of the brain in individuals with epilepsy which — due to a developmental abnormality, trauma, stroke, or a growing tumor — has stopped responding to control signals, and this results in recurrent seizures.

This new study of non-military, civilian trauma patients visiting the emergency department builds on recent research conducted by Dr. Samadani, supported through the Cohen Veterans Center, which found that the use of this novel eye - tracking technology could reveal edema, or swelling, in the brain as a potential biomarker for assessing brain function and monitoring recovery in people with head injuries.

The eyes have served as a window into the brain, with disconjugate eye movements — eyes rotating in opposite directions — considered a principal marker for head trauma as early as 3,500 years ago.

In another case, a 30 - year - old patient with severe head trauma was declared brain dead by two doctors.

«If we understand how memories are being linked up like this in the brain, we could potentially come up with methods for disrupting memories after trauma,» says Sejnowski.

Previous imaging studies have found that in PTSD sufferers, parts of the brain involved in memory, fear, and mood control are smaller compared with the brains of people who come through their trauma more - or-less unscathed.

But the MRI scans showed that even 3 months after the trauma, some of the students» brains were already changing in a way that tallied with PTSD symptoms.

But researchers know little about how trauma changes the brain — and whether some people's brains are more susceptible to PTSD to begin with.

Of 202 former players of the U.S. version of the game whose brains were examined, 87 % showed the diagnostic signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neurodegenerative disease associated with repetitive head trauma.

Subjects included 119 healthy volunteers and 26,683 patients with a variety of psychiatric conditions such as brain trauma, bipolar disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia / psychotic disorders, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

The FDA authorized marketing the Brain Trauma Indicator after examining data from a clinical study of nearly 2,000 blood samples from patients with suspected concussions.

In 2012, Tom set an appointment with neurosurgeon David Okonkwo, a professor of neurological surgery and the clinical director of the university's Brain Trauma Research Center.

«First, it gives us insight into how abnormalities in the brain occur after trauma, and second, it shows that treatments for non-trauma patients with neuropsychological symptoms may be applicable to some concussion patients.»

Besides age, other risk factors include family history, previous brain trauma, heart disease and gender (the prevalence rate for women over 70 is 16 percent, compared with men at 11 percent).

Stern also added that these findings suggest that the diagnosis of dementia in older individuals with a history of repeat brain trauma may be difficult because many of the symptoms of CTE are similar to other diseases such as Alzheimer's.

Researchers with the National Institutes of Health say that Junior Seau, a star defender in the U.S. National Football League (NFL), had a degenerative brain disease linked to athletes who suffer chronic head trauma associated with violent sports, according to The New York Times.

To develop their predictive model, Dr. Miller and colleagues evaluated 57,588 patients in the National Trauma Data Bank over age 50 who had blunt trauma with isolated brain iTrauma Data Bank over age 50 who had blunt trauma with isolated brain itrauma with isolated brain injury.

Co-author Dr. Bennet Omalu, who originally described CTE as depicted in the movie Concussion featuring Will Smith, added, «What our current work is doing in addition to other imaging modalities builds the foundation between identifying the negative effects of head trauma on the brain while the patient is still alive so that we can intervene with better treatments.»

To test whether the CAP treatment reduced brain damage after trauma, they compared control mice with a real brain injury that were given the CAP treatment against similar mice that were given the saline control.

A person's genetics also likely plays a role, because not everyone with a history of repeated brain trauma develops the disease, the CTE Center says.

To test the hypothesis that the immune system causes brain damage after a trauma, the scientists compared the lesion size in CD74 deficient mice, vs control strain after a real brain trauma, with the saline injection.

«Based on tests like these, we believe we can replace that rolled steel with steel - CMF without sacrificing safety, better blocking not only the fragments but also the blast waves that are responsible for trauma such as major brain injuries.

This disorder has occurred following trauma, such as during advanced stages of typhoid and multiple sclerosis, and has been linked with brain regions such as the parietal cortex and the prefrontal cortex — «the parietal cortex is typically involved in attentional processes, and the prefrontal cortex is involved in delusions observed in psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia,» Mobbs explains.

Among the study's other findings: Fighters with greater exposure to repetitive head trauma have lower brain volumes.

In a first - of - its - kind effort to illuminate the biochemical impact of trauma, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered a connection between the quantity of cannabinoid receptors in the human brain, known as CB1 receptors, and post-traumatic stress disorder, the chronic, disabling condition that can plague trauma victims with flashbacks, nightmares and emotional instability.